Author(s)

RuJia Wei^*, GaiGai Wang

Affiliation(s)

Grand Diplomacy Youth Think Tank, Shenzhen 518056, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

RuJia Wei

ABSTRACT

Climate change is closely linked to human health. According to the backdrop of a series of severe consequences caused by global warming, global public health governance has entered a new stage of development. Climate change exerts impacts on multiple aspects of pathogens of various infectious diseases, such as their structure, transmission scope and drug resistance. The severe consequences it brings directly affect the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. At present, it is imperative to enhance the international community’s capability in responding to and collaborating on public health crises amid climate change. The study takes infectious diseases as an example to elaborate on the relationship between climate change and the outbreak of the epidemic diseases. The findings are mainly clustered into eleven categories, namely evidence assessment/potential malaria transmission areas, temporal variation, infectious diseases/Zika virus, respiratory diseases, compound disasters of extreme weather and epidemics, highlighting research gaps, and non-communicable diseases and nutrition. This visualization analysis of relevant studies based on bibliometric methods provides a practical basis for improving the global capacity of public health prevention and response.

KEYWORDS

Climate change; Public health; Epidemic diseases; Greenhouse gases; Pathogens

CITE THIS PAPER

RuJia Wei, GaiGai Wang. The correlation between climate change and the outbreak of epidemic diseases. World Journal of Biomedical Sciences. 2026, 4(1): 1-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjbs3019.

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